Escape to the stars

I have been musing on the idea that when we eventually make this planet totally uninhabitable through our short-term greed and scientific ignorance there are some people who think we might be able to escape to another planet. Perhaps one of the myriad exoplanets discovered in recent years circling distant stars may well represent a mirror of our world existing in a Goldilocks state, although whether we could ever travel such distances is another point. Indeed, having nothing that even vaguely resembles a spaceship to take us there and sustain its passengers for the centuries-long journey doesn’t seem to deter the dreamers.

In a sense, good on them, we need dreamers. It was always dreamers who struck out to brave new worlds…but, in trying to leave behind what we ruin, won’t we also be leaving behind our pride?

My song “Escape to the Stars” was, if I remember rightly, the first I wrote and recorded on my Taylor guitar. Originally, I did a mock “trumpet” solo with my mouth, but then Eddie Bryant stepped up to the mark and recorded an awesom dual-saxophone solo for me.